Fashion - Sales Account Manager

Our client is a long established, leading fashion manufacturer and supplier of own brand and licensed fashion apparel and accessories.  Covering fashion garments to include character nightwear, underwear, hosiery and socks across men’s, ladies and children’s. With the addition of babywear and accessories.  
This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled Sales Account Manager with fashion (apparel/Garment/soft accessories) knowledge to join this successful team within a fast-paced environment.

Fashion - Sales Account Manager - The Role:

• Develop successful strategies to underpin delivery of sales against budgets considering overheads and ensuring we are always maximising opportunity and profitability within a fashion based environment
• Manage own retail fashion accounts as well as offering support to the other sales managers & their customers via a close working relationship & assist in ensuring optimum engagement of the rest of the team
• Manage the commercial process & ensure all lead-time calendars are updated & followed ensuring timely delivery wherever possible
• Deal with fashion retail customer complaints in a courteous & polite manner, always protecting the company’s position & seeking to find mutually acceptable solutions to business issues
• Assist with the smooth handover to the merchandiser & admin support team

• Responsible for own budgeting
• Maintaining strong relationships with the internal team & external suppliers/retailers.

Fashion - Sales Account Manager – The candidate:

• Experience within account management in the fashion industry and garments/socks & licensed experience a bonus
• Need confident proactive personable team player who will integrate themselves into the business and work with all departments/colleagues to fulfil briefs
• Capable of processing complex information and understanding multifaceted issues. 
• Well-seasoned experience: can walk into top fashion retailers, used to dealing with senior management at Retail
• Must be a self-starter, proactive, capable of coordinating teams and individuals & motivating others to succeed
• Proficient at costing and negotiating
• Must be able to use own initiative to gain a business advantage including business development

Fashion - Sales Account Manager - The Package:

• Competitive salary with early finish Fridays and one day WFH could be an option for the right candidate

Due to the anticipated interest in this role only short listed candidates will be contacted.
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